Seoul.

Inside the headquarters of the GEN Esports Club.

"Finally won, Jaehyuk, you can be regarded as revenge, I remember that you didn't seem to win much when you usually lined him up."

In addition to Gen's bottom lane duo ruler and corejj, there is also Cuvee in the top laner in the illegal three-row group.

At this time, Cuvee also showed a smile on his face after seeing the Korean word victory popping up on the screen, and spoke.

"I'm sure I'll be happy if you take that last sentence back."

Emperor Qi replied expressionlessly.

Since playing the S7 World Championship, Emperor Ruler's temperament has become more and more indifferent, and he has gradually become an emotionless output machine in the team, and he dares to fight and fight when facing any bottom lane duo in China.

And his way of playing is like venting his anger.

Emperor Qi knows very well how this one wins, there is a wave of the four of them over the tower during the line period, and the result is almost operated by Li Luo, if it weren't for the jungler on Li Luo's side, the blind boy is the best sixth man, and he will send their own side of the tower to death out of the attack range of the defense tower, and maybe Li Luo will fight back.

Although it is difficult for ADC to carry the team on its own, there are people who want to win on Li Luo's side, and it is really hard to say if Li Luo gets fat.

It was under this kind of combination that he gained the upper hand in the line period, and Emperor Qi secretly calculated that in the past year or so, he and Li Luo had encountered no less than thirty or forty times in the rank, and this seemed to be the first time he destroyed his defense tower one step ahead of Li Luo.

It's a little sour to think about.

"We're going to be in the tournament right away, cheer up."

CoreJJ patted Emperor Ruler on the shoulder: "Win all the play-ins, if we can, we can also be assigned to Group A to complete revenge in the real sense of the game." ”

Who knew that after corejj's words fell into the ears of Emperor Ruler, Emperor Ruler jumped up directly like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, he shook off Corejj's hand and said, "Ah Yigu, I'm annoying." ”

corejj looked at the back of Emperor Ruler leaving, a little helpless.

"He has a knot."

At some point, Ann appeared behind Corejj and spoke.

"I know that he longs for revenge, but in fact, he already has a fear of shine in his bones, which is a very ambivalent psychology, and he is running away."

Corejj, as the old partner of the ruler emperor, sighed: "I think our form is really good, and I have a hunch that EDG will not go smoothly in this World Championship, the MAD state in Group A is very sluggish, we have recently had a training match with them, and the weakness is outrageous." ”

"Europe's No. 2 VIT is very strong, but it doesn't feel as strong as ours, I want to try to see if there is a possibility that we can make EDG like last year...... Huh? Brother Chanrong? ”

Corejj, who was talking endlessly, turned around to find that Ann was already walking into the distance.

I saw that the head of An stretched out his hand and said as he walked: "You brag don't take us, it's good to have a dream, but your dream is too unrealistic, my idea is the same as Jaehyuk, I don't want to fall in Group A in the group stage, we may even be the first in the group if we fall in other groups, but in Group A, there is a high probability that we can only second." ”

"Do you want to fight a civil war when you get eight into four? I don't want to. ”

When Boss An said this, he felt very handsome.

He felt he had a long-term vision.

As a South Korean, although he lost last year's World Championship, Ahn thought it was a small probability.

The training environment for League of Legends in Korea is still much better than in China, and they don't have as many sponsor ads and don't take up a lot of training time for the players.

At most, it is to occasionally participate in activities such as variety shows, which is also for the sake of the contestants' relaxation.

Although LPL has been developing rapidly for more than a year, Ann firmly believes that it is easy to get an egg if the step is too big.

This year, their Korean team will use the results of the "Top Four and Three Korean Teams" to help LCK regain the title of the first division!

There is a reason why Boss An has such confidence.

This year's Summer Tournament ended with a one-round loss to AFS, but in the bubble tournament, GEN completed an incredible series of threes.

They took out SKT first, followed by Griffin in the summer and KZ in the spring.

KZ, which fell into decline after MSI, failed to even enter the World Championship, and was kicked away like a dog in the playoffs, and as a result, the goal of the bubble game was not defended.

Even the well-known commentator of LPL, their loyal fan Guan Zeyuan was excited and inexplicably posted a Weibo, praising Gen's resilience between words, and said that a team like Gen that has gone through great hardships to enter the world championship will definitely be able to sing high and play a record in team history.

The whole world is optimistic about them, and what they didn't do last year, they will definitely be able to do this year!

Thinking of this, Head An held his head high and was full of confidence.

……

Meanwhile.

Busan, inside EDG's temporary training base.

All members of EDG are affected by the disaster.

It's just that this local area of Liluo was the most severely affected.

After losing a rank again, even Abu couldn't stand it anymore, and walked to Li Luo's side and couldn't help but say, "Or ...... Rest, it's not going to work. ”

"Actually, it's okay."

Li Luo shook his head slightly: "Winning or losing aside, if you don't think about these, this kind of training environment is actually quite good." ”

"Huh?"

Abu was sluggish.

At the end of this day, he had seen what the bull ghosts and snake gods on Li Luo's side looked like.

These people's acting skills are extremely bad, and all kinds of deliberately annoying measures emerge in endlessly.

But Li Luo is like a wooden man, he is not angry when he is robbed, and he is not angry when he is assisted to maliciously flash k-head, and he has always played rank with a calm attitude.

Is this still human?

Isn't this a saint?

Li Luo glanced at Abu, who was in a stupor, and took advantage of the queue to move his wrist, and then turned over the chair and said: "Coach, you have to think about it from a different angle, for example, the one who grabbed the red, although he grabbed the red, but he lost his own horse, it will be much more comfortable to think about it this way." ”

Abu: o((⊙_⊙))o

For the first time, he felt that someone could show the elegance of "bad mouth".

"There is also the wave of four packs of one on the next road, I thought about it carefully, if I encounter the same situation next time, I may be able to live two more seconds, I only dodged three of the four directional skills in that wave, if it wasn't for the kick of our blind monk that messed up my Dao heart, I could also dodge the fourth."

"What is this? That's the experience, and the next time I encounter something like this, even if my teammates try to control the other nine people on the field with a flash, I'll be the one who is out of control. ”

Li Luo's remarks, not to mention that Abu is stupid, Xiaotian, who is listening next to him, is also stupid.

Xiao Tianzhi thought that his brain circuits were winding enough.

But compared with Li Luo, he is like a child.

How much blood and fire has this been the only time it has been such an unforgettable experience?!

"Okay."

Abu didn't have much more to say.

Xiao Tian opened his mouth next to him: "Brother Luo, I'm a little confused now, and I need your guidance." ”

"Please."

Looking at Xiaotian's appearance, Li Luo was amused in his heart, and said pretending to be serious.

"As a jungler, I also know the truth of helping the good and not the bad, but the problem now is that I will run into a teammate with a three-way disadvantage, how can I help?"

Xiao Tian asked a very distressing question.

"It's a simple question."

Li Luo still had a serious face, he stood up and went to the refrigerator in the training room to get a can of ice and said, "Help with the ticket." ”

Xiaotian: ......

The favourites are never short of training opponents.

The problem of poor ranking environment is gradually improving after all the major teams have settled in South Korea.

The same is true for Li Luo.

When there are two or three heavyweight pros on your side of the family in a fight, even if someone gives it away, there is a chance to win the match.

And the situation of five Chinese lined up to one side is gradually increasing.

Li Luo must be glad that at this time, he has not seen the situation where someone in the top game of Hanbok has opened, there may be, at least he has not encountered it much.

The competition came as scheduled, and so did the play-in round.

Many of the top 32 teams will compete in play-in tournaments to determine whether they will make it to the round of 16.

EDG only watched two or three play-in matches and then stopped watching them, leaving Abu alone to keep an eye on the few teams that could make it to Group A.

At most, the EDG would be in the evening to listen to Abu's summary of the use of versions by the teams in the play-in.

Great cleverness, there are still some.

The No-hand, who was strengthened in the Worlds version, made his debut in the Play-In Tournament very quickly.

It's just that this appearance comes and goes faster.

When the opponent pulled out Ergat, another mainstream hero of S8, Noshou was brutally beaten in the laning period.

The E-skill has a high priority, and the nature of its W skill makes it too easy to stack the conqueror, so it's easy to imagine how useful it will be in this game when a No-Hand can't beat another Warrior Hero while being face-to-face.

Since that game, all the teams have learned well, it's impossible to choose a promiser, it's impossible in this life, it's too embarrassing when this thing is playing in a group, in front of the world's live broadcast, this thing is easy to play with.

And when this hero was toyed with, he looked like a stupid man, and when he thought that he would be ridiculed by a group of bronze and silver players as a dignified professional player, almost all the top players subconsciously said "no" to the no. ”

The Play-In Tournament is progressing very quickly.

When the final four qualifiers are finalized, it is a logical thing for the audience to qualify for these four teams.

G2, Gen, C9, and GRX.

When assigning the group, G2 couldn't be assigned to Group A because Group A already had a European team VIT, so Gen came to Group A in order.

When they learned the news, the expressions of the Gen people were complicated.

Though...... They know that their team can only be in Group A or Group D.

But compared to EDG, they are actually more willing to face the IG team in Group D.

However, they didn't say anything about the lottery, although Emperor Qi had a bit of emo in his heart, but the ambitious An Zhangmen and CoreJJ were secretly competing.

Even the mid-laner Brother Crown sat up slightly and showed his fighting spirit.

Who did he face last year?

It's Rookie!

Rookie's pressure on the line is so strong that it will be very difficult for him to resist pressure.

And the junior brother is like a weakened version of Rookie in the eyes of Brother Crown.

Whether it's lane ability or game experience in his career, the junior brother is weaker than Rookie, and Brother Crown has the confidence to ...... Hold him back!

The pressure on the top laner is relatively small, he has also studied Jin Gong and knows that Jin Gong is a difficult player to break through, but correspondingly he also understands that Jin Gong will not cause him too much pressure on the alignment.

After all, it is a fact that Jin Gong's offensive on the line is not strong enough.

As for the substitute jungler Haru, he is in a state of ignorance.

Last year, he went to the World Championship and lost.

This year, Ann's form has declined, and he has gradually become the team's starting jungler, and he has won more starts than last year.

He is much younger, and the blood in his bones makes him have the heart to go to Li Luo, who broke them up last year, to touch it.

……

"It's gen."

In the EDG base, Li Luo, who learned the news, was no exception.

Now the four groupings have been fully finalized.

Group A: EDG, VIT (Europe 2), MAD (Southeast Asia 2), GEN (Korea 3)

Group B: KT (South Korea No. 1), TL (North America No. 1), RNG (LPL No. 2), GRX (Southeast Asia No. 3, Hong Kong team. ）

Group C: FW (Southeast Asia No. 1), AFS (Korea No. 2), 100 (North America No. 2), G2 (Europe No. 3)

Group D: FNC (Europe 1), IG (LPL 3), PVB (Vietnam), C9 (North America 3)

On the whole, because of the addition of Gen, the situation in Group A suddenly became anxious and smelled of gunpowder.

The last to join Group B are the unlucky Grx Pure Mishaps, who may be the most miserable team in the group so far in the S Tournament.

Although they haven't played yet, the pressure on them from the other players in the group is too great, it's just the kind of stuffiness.

Group C has a lot of suspense with the addition of G2, although this group does not have a team from the LPL region, but in the eyes of the audience, the situation of this group should be quite anxious.

In Group D, the suspense also increased rapidly with the addition of C9.

As the resident water ghost of the S game, it is not certain who C9 will pull into the water, after all, they are the leader of the best record in North America.

The end of the play-in round means that the group stage is about to begin.

……

October 1.

It's a good day.

Busan, Convention and Exhibition Center.

It's not the first time that the EDG people have come to this venue.

But the second time they came, they still only had two words of perception of this venue.

Stingy.

Busan's group stage venues are not large.

At least compared to the S7 group stage held in China last year, it is much smaller.

But everyone is here to play the game, and they don't care about this, as long as the Koreans don't pull out the network cable, everything is easy to say.

When the EDG people arrived in the backstage lounge to start preparing for today's game, the crowds in the main stadium also began to enter the stadium with their favorite teams.

The venue is not big, but it is full, and after about half an hour, the official promotional video belonging to S8 is officially played.

This means that the countdown to the real Worlds has begun.

Team after team, player after player appeared in front of the screen.

Speaking different languages from around the world, they tell their dreams for their careers and their hopes for the World Finals.

In the promotional video of about five minutes, many heavyweight players appeared.

The penultimate shot is the picture of the IG crowd returning the World Championship trophy that they won last year and placing it in the center of the stadium.

For this picture, the audience took it for granted.

But to the surprise of many viewers, the man did not appear.

As the melody of the S8 theme song RISE comes to a climax, Li Luo's back slowly appears on the big screen.

One wonderful shot after another appeared on the screen.

Seeing this ID, many Koreans have a complicated look in their eyes.

The promo was apparently shot by Riot itself.

If it was Koreans, they would not shoot like this.

Especially at the end, when Li Luo slowly turned around and looked at the trophy, the words he said as the end of the promotional video of the S8 World Championship left a deep impression on countless people.

"My team-mates who used to play side by side have returned the trophy, but for me it's only a temporary deposit."

"In a month, I'll get it back!"